The Goldendale Sentinel - Headlines & History since 1879

D-Day, 1984, Babe Ruth, John Wayne, Dean Martin, ball point pen

June 6: 1882—Henry W. Seely patents the electric iron. Burn marks on shirts rise dramatically. 1944—Approximately 150,000 Allied Expeditionary Force troops land in Normandy for D-Day. In honor of the occasion, professional baseball cancels all games to be played that day. Born: Robert “Freddy Kruger” Englund (1949). Died: Jack Haley, the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz (1979). Celibacy Awareness Month.